RP Aid (Bounty Hunters' Guild)

[Jerrel]

From the pages of Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Hero's Guide

Bounty Hunters' Guild
The Bounty Hunters' Guild is a large organization that rivals many crime syndicates in size. Composed of thousands of bounty hunters from across tha galaxy, the organization functions as a regulatory group to ensure that its members follow a certain code of conduct. In exchange, the Guild offers its members several perks and benifits that independent bounty hunters are never given. This trade-off works well and ensures that Guild-endorsed bounty hunters always do their jod or suffer the consequences.
The Bounty Hunters' Guild was founded as a means of not only regulating the sometimes wild and dangerous nature of hunters but also as a means of ensuring that hunters are paid on a equitable scale. As a large group, the Guild can deny access tot he best bounty hunters in the galaxyif an employer does not pay enough or has a history of causing problems. Should some pompouus Hutt crime lord decide to go back on a contract, the Guild can blacklist that Hutt and deny him the services of the most efficient bounty hunters.
Not all bounty hunters are members of the Guild, but many of the best and brightest are. The infamous Boba Fett has not joined the Guild but several of Lord Vader's other preffered bounty hunters did. While some hunters prefer to strike out on their own, the Guild affords its members many advantages. The Guild acts as a contract broker, finding and doling out the most lucrative contracts. The downside of this function is that the Guild takes a standard 10% off the top of each contract.
The Guild provides a number of valuable services to its members. The Guild owns a number of starship repair yards for members use (for example, there are Guild-operated yards on Nar Shaddaa and Corellia). Additionally, the Bounty Hunters' Guild provides in-house medical facilities for hunters wounded in combat. When no facility owned by the Guild can be located quickly, the Guild will often reimburse the hunter for any credits spent healing from battle wounds earned while on the hunt.
The Guild can act as a quartermaster or arms dealer when special equipment is called for. They have several stockpiles of special and heavy weaponry stashed throughout the galaxy that are accessible to Guild members. Guild membership also acts as an Imperial license to carry weapons on worlds cantrolled by the Empire, including Coruscant.
The Guild has an extensive information database that can be accessed via most communications networks to look up data on a planet, target, starship, or whatever else the bounty hunter might need while on the hunt.
The Bounty Hunters' Guild is actually a conglomeration of many smaller guilds spread throughout the galaxy. While each smaller guild operates mostly independently. They all coordinate with one another via the central Guild structure. This ensures that bounty hunters on contracts in varrious sectors of space do not overlap their jobs with one another. Some of the guilds that make up this network include the Tresario Bounty Hunters' Guild (founded by an ex-Imperial Navy office to combat space piracy), the Mantis Syndicate (a guild that functions more like a private mercenary army composed of members from bounty hunting backgrounds), and the Ragnar syndicate (which allows its member to take on extensive freelance contracts and still remain a member of the guild). These smaller guilds communicate with one another through the larger Bounty Hunters' Guild and rarely fight among themselves; when they do, the Bounty Hunters' Guild steps in to mediate.

Joining
To join the Bounty Hunters' Guild, one must go through a process similar to applying for a new job or joining an exclusive organization. An application is filled out, and the hunter is interviewed (often informally, such as a meeting in a cantina or having a conversation while the hunter waits for his ship to be refueled). The bounty hunter must agree to abide by a code of conduct that dictates behavior while on the hunt and is given a list of rules and regulations to follow.
After that, the hunter is considered a member of the Bounty Hunters' Guild and starts taking on Guild contracts as they become available. From theat point forward, the hunter must follow the rules and abide by the code, but otherwise joining the Guild is a relatively simple matter.

Leaving
Unlike some fringe organizations, leaving the Bounty Hunters' Guild is similar to quitting a job. While there can be some hard feelings, any hunter is free to leave the organization at any time. Of coarse, all the perks and benifits that come with working as a member of the Guild are gone as well; no more exclusive contracts, no more special deals on equipment or medical treatment, no more information database. Additionally, the leadership of the Guild sometimes blacklists bounty hunters that leave on especially bad terms, making life painful for them when trying to get other contracts.

*Note: Edited for the time period of SWG.

[alexandria nexus]

kirt and I both...quit that guild.

[Kyanus]

kirt and I both...quit that guild.

Now are you talking about the SWG guild claiming to be the BHG, or the actual canon Guild?

[Sai'nu]

kirt and I both...quit that guild.

Now are you talking about the SWG guild claiming to be the BHG, or the actual canon Guild?

My bet is the first one. The guild claiming to be the BHG. From what I've seen every guild that has tried to copy certain canon organizations directly from the movies or the EU material always botches up the feel because it never seems to result into being like it was in the books. Best way to go... be your own character. Sure, associate with Boba Fett, Jabba, Luke... whatever. But don't try and be Rogue Squadron. It's been done and 'your' not Wedge Antilles as the story goes.


Thanks for the RP info too, Jerrel. I'm wondering if their isn't a link to all of the Star Wars RPG material somewhere. A West End Games/WOC site featuring all the accumilated gaming material.

[Kyanus]

My bet is the first one. The guild claiming to be the BHG. From what I've seen every guild that has tried to copy certain canon organizations directly from the movies or the EU material always botches up the feel because it never seems to result into being like it was in the books. Best way to go... be your own character. Sure, associate with Boba Fett, Jabba, Luke... whatever. But don't try and be Rogue Squadron. It's been done and 'your' not Wedge Antilles as the story goes.


Thanks for the RP info too, Jerrel. I'm wondering if their isn't a link to all of the Star Wars RPG material somewhere. A West End Games/WOC site featuring all the accumilated gaming material.

Yeah, that's what I thought too, but I figured I'd make sure instead of jumping to a conclusion. ;) From what I've seen, the Gorath BGH guild aren't very good bounty hunters, RP-wise, and the members I've met haven't really lived up to these guidelines, but oh well. Like you said, it's bound to happen.

As for amore source material, I know that the Wizards of the Coast site has some good added material (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=st ... ainrpg/rpg), but not this kind of info.

[Jerrel]

Well this is the guild from the books not the game. I suggest that if you would like to be from the book guild just say so in your profile and always say that you go this jedi or that NPC from the guild instead of the terms.

[Zaren Sin]

Have you read Tales of the Bounty Hunters or The Bounty Hunter War Trilogy. It's full of information about the Guild and other little BH tidbits. I've never RP'ed as being a member of the Guild. I kind of took Boba Fett's stance on them.

From what I read in the books, the Bounty Hunter Wars should be taking place during our time period.If the Devs decide to move the time frame of the game up to ESB, then the Guild will have completely dissolved by that time.

[Jerrel]

Have you read Tales of the Bounty Hunters or The Bounty Hunter War Trilogy. It's full of information about the Guild and other little BH tidbits. I've never RP'ed as being a member of the Guild. I kind of took Boba Fett's stance on them.

From what I read in the books, the Bounty Hunter Wars should be taking place during our time period.If the Devs decide to move the time frame of the game up to ESB, then the Guild will have completely dissolved by that time.

I write about these organizations, including the BHG, as they stood at the end of ANH mainly due to the fact that the devs have never been clear on game time relavent to galactic events, hence why some of the post have notes at the end stating that I edited the information to exclude things that have yet to pass. Personally as a fellow BH I would love to see the community of BH roleplayers beging to act out the BH Wars from the Fett trilogy but due to my absence from the game I haven't really been able to focus on it.

[Kyanus]

I write about these organizations, including the BHG, as they stood at the end of ANH mainly due to the fact that the devs have never been clear on game time relavent to galactic events, hence why some of the post have notes at the end stating that I edited the information to exclude things that have yet to pass. Personally as a fellow BH I would love to see the community of BH roleplayers beging to act out the BH Wars from the Fett trilogy but due to my absence from the game I haven't really been able to focus on it.

You know, that would make for some awesome RP if it could ever get off the ground. Especially for a bounty hunter such as myself who is a member of the Guild, but more loyal to Jabba than to the association.

[Novall]

Have you read Tales of the Bounty Hunters or The Bounty Hunter War Trilogy. It's full of information about the Guild and other little BH tidbits. I've never RP'ed as being a member of the Guild. I kind of took Boba Fett's stance on them.

From what I read in the books, the Bounty Hunter Wars should be taking place during our time period.If the Devs decide to move the time frame of the game up to ESB, then the Guild will have completely dissolved by that time.

I never put much stock in the BHG either. To many rules that an efficent BH just cant work by.

[Dew]

As a now former member I can say no...there wasn't much in the way of RP to BHG (in game) in fact most info I pointed out when concerning how the guild was represented in Books and such for the most part fell on deaf ears. I am just now getting into RP again as I rerolled and of course fell from graces with the (in game) BHG.

Thanks for the info tho, I had not read that one before. Would be nice to form up an actual BHG, more like what is stated there as a alliance between BHs between different guilds. Kinda cool idea.

[Zaren Sin]

I write about these organizations, including the BHG, as they stood at the end of ANH mainly due to the fact that the devs have never been clear on game time relavent to galactic events, hence why some of the post have notes at the end stating that I edited the information to exclude things that have yet to pass. Personally as a fellow BH I would love to see the community of BH roleplayers beging to act out the BH Wars from the Fett trilogy but due to my absence from the game I haven't really been able to focus on it.

Oh, I understand. I just like seeing others that are as enthusiastic about BH as I am. BH was the reason I decided to get the game over two years ago.

[Kyanus]

Oh, I understand. I just like seeing others that are as enthusiastic about BH as I am. BH was the reason I decided to get the game over two years ago.

You and me both. And not just because of Boba Fett. I've always been fascinated with the idea of the bounty hunter, and whether it was in a Star Wars setting, an Old West setting, or even a fantasy setting (although it's rather interesting that no one has yet to explore this option here), I wanted to be a BH.

[Zaren Sin]

Oh, I understand. I just like seeing others that are as enthusiastic about BH as I am. BH was the reason I decided to get the game over two years ago.

You and me both. And not just because of Boba Fett. I've always been fascinated with the idea of the bounty hunter, and whether it was in a Star Wars setting, an Old West setting, or even a fantasy setting (although it's rather interesting that no one has yet to explore this option here), I wanted to be a BH.

Tell me about it. I think my fascination started with watching Clint Eastwood in some of his old Spaghetti Westerns, which they were called Bounty Killers, and then it starts up with Star Wars.

[Krusshyk]

I like the show "Dog the Bounty Hunter".